An article titled “WVU’s Project Oculus: Defending America with New Eyes,” focuses on a WVU Business Incubator tenant, Oculus.
The article states that Project Oculus is a self-contained computer-based work station and sensor pallet system that was designed to deploy remote sensors from the cargo hold of a C-130 for the purposes of remote imaging. It was made to easily be loaded onto a C-130 transport plane for quick use by local and federal drug enforcement personnel. Oculus is a creation of WVU’s Center for Industrial Research Application (CIRA), located in the College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, and is currently being funded by nearly $800,000 in research contracts from the Department of Defense’s Counter Narco-Terrorism Program Office and the National Guard’s Counterdrug Directorate. Oculus’ designers say it can be easily used for Homeland Security missions and for search-and-rescue operations.
This article was featured in the WVU Engineering and Mineral Resources newsletter, Volume 1 Issue 2, Fall 2005.
Members of the Charleston Air National Guard, the 130th Airlift, view the Oculus sensor pallet as it is deployed from the bay of a C130 Aircraft.
Posted by Matt Livengood on August 1, 2005 at 1:15 pm in the following categories: Oculus Development
